Sharon completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Maynooth University in 2016 where her final year research project titled ‘Personality in Text-Messages: An Analysis of Self-Monitoring Skills and Textual Features among University Students’ as supervised by the Dean of Science and Engineering Prof. Fiona Lyddy received the ‘Best Thesis Award’. She then completed her Masters in Psychological Science at University College Dublin in 2017 under Dr. Brendan Rooney while working as a Research Assistant at the UCD Media Lab, where she utilised virtual reality to investigate cognitive and attention processes in entertainment and media engagement. Her Masters’ thesis, ‘Concept Explication of Perceived Realism: A Neurological Perspective’ examined specifically whether realism in media can be defined in dichotomous terms using the dual-process model.
Sharon is passionate about collaborating digital innovation with mental health treatments and clinical applications. Having worked as a clinical Assistant Psychologist providing support through internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) to service users with a range of mental health problems, Sharon now seeks to continue developing her research interests through a PhD at TCD, where she will be using machine learning and network analysis in internet-delivered psychological treatment prediction, to better understand who does iCBT work for and why. Sharon’s PhD is fully supported by the Irish Research Council, where she is an awardee of the Enterprise Partnership Scheme 2020.
Email: clee9 [at] tcd.ie
Publications (*denotes first-authorship)
*Lee, C.T., Kelley, S.W., Palacios, J., Richards, D., Gillan, C.M. (In print). Estimating the Prognostic Value of Cross-Sectional Network Connectivity for Treatment Response in 40,518 Individuals with Depression Symptoms. Psychological Medicine. [link]
Kelley, S.W., Fisher, A., Lee, C.T., Gallagher, E., Hanlon, A.K., Robertson, I.H., Gillan, C.M. (In print). Elevated Emotion Network Connectivity Leaves People Vulnerable to Fluctuations in
Depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [link]
Fox, C., Lee, C.T., Harty, S., Richards, D., Palacios, D., O’Keane, V., Stephan, K.E., Gillan, C.M. (In print). Metacognition in anxious-depression is state-dependent: an observational treatment study. American Journal of Psychiatry. [link]
*Lee, C.T., Harty, S., Adegoke, A., Palacios, J., Gillan, C.M., Richards, D. (In print). The Effectiveness of Low-Intensity Psychological Interventions for Comorbid Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Long-term Conditions: A Real-World Naturalistic Observational Study in IAPT Integrated Care. International Journal of Behavioural Medicine.
*Christophers, L., Lee, C.T., Rooney, B (joint-first authorship) (In print). Exploring Subjective Realism: Do evaluative realism and felt realism respond differently to different cues? International Journal of Human Computer Studies.
* Lee, C.T., Palacios, J., Richards, D., Hanlon, A. K., Lynch, K., Harty, S., … Gillan, C. M. The Precision in Psychiatry (PIP) study: An Internet-Based Methodology for Accelerating Research in Treatment Prediction and Personalisation. (2023). BMC Psychiatry, 23(1), 25. [link]
Enrique, A., Mooney, O., Salamanca-Sanabria, A., Lee, C. T., Farrell, S., & Richards, D. (2020). Assessing the efficacy and acceptability of an internet-delivered intervention for resilience among college students: Pilot randomised control trial. JMIR Formative Research. 4(11), e20167. [link]
Enrique, A., Mooney, O., Salamanca-Sanabria, A., Lee, C. T., Farrell, S., & Richards, D. (2019). Assessing the efficacy and acceptability of an internet-delivered intervention for resilience among college students: A pilot randomised control trial protocol. Internet Intervention. 17, 100254. [link]
Rooney, B., Balint, K. E., Parsons, T. D., Burke, C., O’Leary, T., Lee, C. T., & Mantei, C. (2017). Attention and Social Cognition in Virtual Reality: The effect of engagement mode and character eye-gaze. Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine: 15, p. 82-88. [link]
Conference Presentations
2023 (Symposium)
Society of Biological Psychiatry 2023 Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, US
Bringing Precision in Psychiatry (PIP) online: A Large-Scale Internet-Based Investigation of Self-Report and Cognitive Predictors of Response to Depression Treatment
2022 (Poster)
The British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting, London, UK
The Precision in Psychiatry (PIP) Study: An Internet-Based Methodology for accelerating research in treatment prediction and personalisation
2021 (Oral)
The British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting, Virtual
Association of Depression Symptom Network Connectivity and Treatment Response to Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
2021 (Poster)
Treatment Selection Idea Lab (TSIL) – Two Days of Precision Medicine in Mental Health, Virtual
Association of Depression Symptom Network Connectivity and Treatment Response to Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
2021 (Poster)
Neuroscience Ireland Conference, Virtual
Association of Depression Symptom Network Connectivity and Treatment Response to Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
2021 (Poster)
2021 MQ Science Summit, Virtual
The PIP Study: An Internet-based Methodological Approach to Treatment Prediction Research
2021 (Poster)
Society of Biological Psychiatry 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual
The PIP Study: An Internet-based Methodological Approach to Treatment Prediction Research
2019 (Poster)
European Society for Research on Internet Interventions, Copenhagen, Denmark
IAPT Integrated Care: iCBT for Comorbid Depression and Anxiety in People with Long-Term Conditions.
2017 (Poster)
London Interactive Eye Gaze Conference, London, UK
Piloting, Validating, and Applying a Virtual Eye-Gaze Task to Measure Social Cognition Responses.
2017 (Poster)
23rd International Conference on Virtual System & Multimedia (VSMM), Dublin, Ireland
Virtual reality, presence, and social cognition. The effect of eye-gaze and narrativity on character engagement.
2016 (Oral)
Student Congress, Ulster, Northern Ireland
Personality in Text-Messages: An Analysis of Self-Monitoring Skills and Textual Features among University Students.
Invited Talks
2023 – Invited for Webinar Series Presentation for the Society of Psychotherapy Research, European Branch, Early Careers Research Group
How useful are cross-sectional networks? Estimating the prognostic value of cross-sectional network connectivity for treatment response in depression
2021 – Invited for Short Oral Presentation at The British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting, Virtual
Association of Depression Symptom Network Connectivity and Treatment Response to Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Blogs and White Papers
2019 – Online therapeutic alliance in ICBT – why is it so important?[link]
2019 – IAPT Integrated Care – iCBT for Comorbid Depression and Anxiety in People with Long-term Conditions [link]
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